dailymail.co.uk - 12/14/2008
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What a pathetic row over nothing. The teacher was probably driven to distraction by the unruly behaviour of the little horrors, and said what she did to shut them up. Usually kids are aware by the age of 7 that there is no Santa, older siblings and children are bursting to tell them. They will ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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news.bbc.co.uk —
A teacher has been banned from a primary
school after telling children Father Christmas does not exist....
The female supply teacher told pupils at Blackshaw Lane Primary in Royton, Oldham, that it was parents, not Santa, who left their gifts on ...
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | Teacher banned ...
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War on Christmas: Teacher Fired Over Santa Revelation
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Religion, Humor Day Eight of Tommy and Caleb's Twelve Days of the War on Christmas. Day Eight in the War on Christmas clearly has my amused detachment soundly defeating Caleb Howe's sober outrage, but today's story threatens my entire thesis. The London Daily Mail reports that a substitute teacher was fired for telling students that there is no Santa Claus: When excited youngsters became rowdy as they talked about Santa, the supply teacher blurted out: 'It's your parents who leave out ...
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PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Tell a class of seven year-olds that Santa doesn’t exist.
Sheer genius.
(The Daily Mail headline says the teacher was “fired” but in point of fact, she simply has not been rehired by the school in question).
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